Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-24

are of legendary lore and full of quaint and
| broad humor. In fact they fall little short
| OF caricstures, but are saved from that
fate by the satirical vein and the liberty
| with which historical characters are han
died.
Sketches in Song" by George Lansing
Raymond, author of A Lie in Song"
Ballads of the Revolution, " " Poetry as
a Representative Art" etc, is published BY
g. 2. Putnam's Sons, New York, and is
for sale by the Bancroft Company, San
Francisco. OF Mr. Raymonds poetic
quality we form a good opinion. His
My Dream at Cordova" is a production
of high order of merit.
William C. Harris, editor of the american
.1ngier, New York, is about TO issue an ex-
tended work on The Fishes of North
America." The various fish mentioned in
the work are TO be illustrated by chromo-
lthography, presenting colors and condi-
lions III the most perfect manner Ii is es-
timated that the cost of the plates will be
$4,000, and the work when completed will
be valuable one.
From H. C. Megerle':s News Depot. Sac
ramento, we have, of LovelPs Household
Library series, Peck 5 Irish Friend Phelan
Geoheagan,n by George w. Peck, Jr., associ-
ate editor of Peck's Sun, the original of
Peck S Bad Boy" Paper covers. From
the same establishment we have, of Low
ells Library, The Frozen Pirate" by W.
Clark Russell. Paper covers, 20 cents.
6. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and
London, have published a thin octave en-
Titled, Best Reading" giving priced and
classified photography for easy reference.
OF the more important English and Ameri-
can publications for five years, ending De-
cember l, 1856. 1t was arranged by l.. E.
Jones, and is convenient and useful book
to Librarians, readers and others
IS iav or Saxon " is a study of the
growth and tendencies of Russian civiliza-
ton by VIM. D. Foulke, A. NJ New York
and London, G. ?. Putnam's Sons San
Francisco, L he Bancroft Company. 1t is
No. XLIII. of the Questions of the Day "
series. We regret that we have not found
time to give it the examination it clearly
deserves.
Harper & Brothers, New York. have put
into very neat octave volume Julia Ma
gruder' novel" A Magnificent Plebeian."
San Francesca: The Bancroft Company.
The author wrote the admirable story.
Across the Chasm." Those in whose
Judgment we confide pronounce " 4 Mag
niticent Plebeian" a still better work.
Hittell's Handbook of Pacific Coast
Travel" is published by the Bancroft Com
pany, San Francisco. 1t is a complete
guide book, and is accompanied by several
excellent maps and number of ilIustra-
tons. The information given of towns.
cities, routes, counties, production, springs,
etc, is very full and accurate.
Jack Hull, or The School DAYS of an
American Boy" is handsome holiday
volume by the accomplished writer for
youth Robert Grant 1t is illustrated by
+. g. Atwood, and is from the press of
Jordan, Marsh & Co., Boston. The story is
well told, and cannot fail to interest and
instruc. any spirited boy.
Miss Vests Glass in Geography is an
admirable account of how Francis f. Spar
hawk, the author, would or does teach
geography to children. 1t is practical. sim
pie and deeply interesting, besides being
an ingenious method. Boston: Lee *
Shepard. San Francisco: Samuel Carson
Il Co; 80 cents.
Faiths Festival is a beautiful small
quarto, by Mary Lakeman, in white mus
lin embelllshed in gold, and printed ele-
gantly. 1t is a holiday gift book, and in
the form of a charming story treats Of
Christmas, Easter, ETC. Press of Lee &
Shepard, Boston; Samuel Carson & Co.,
San Francisco.
Rondah, or Thirty-Three Years in a
Star just published by 7. b. Peterson &
Brothers, Philadelphia, is bright in
genious and absorbing, and of the class
OF novels recently made so popular by
H. Rider Haggard. 1t is much better than
She " or " King Solomon's Mines
Buchanan's Journal of Man, published
monthly at Boston, Mass, and designed to
occupy the highest and most advanced in
tellectual and descriptive plane, will close
its first volume with the next number.
Its first year has been a successful one, and
an enlargement IS contemplated.
White Cockades" is by Edward Ire
n9us Stevenson, and is issued by Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York, at 81, and for
sale by the Bancroft Company, San Fran
CISCO. 1t is of the best order of books for
youths-boys especially-and would make
neat and fit holiday present.
Whoever has seen copy of "St. Nicho-
las will remember Palmer Cox's admir-
able and witty conceit The Brownies"
The grotesque pictures and humorous text
have been put into quarto form and bound
by the Century Company, New York. 1t
makes capital holiday book.
The Modern Vikings" is one of the
best of the many excellent works that have
come from the pen of that gifted writer,
Hlalmar H. Boyesen. 1t is a romance in
many stories, or rather a chaplet of beauti-
full tales. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons 81.
Macmillan & Co.. London and New York,
have issued one of the most exquisite little
holiday books that ever came from the
press. 1t is Tennyson's poem. The
Brook" with twenty diminutive illustra-
tons in colors. They are elegant art
works.
From the Bancroft Company, San Fran
cisco, we have received Dean Stanlev's
Sermons for Children" including the
Beatitudes and The Faithful Ser
want The volume has been printed from
the authors manuscript. 12mo. muslin
81.
George NJ. Bakers Grand Army Speak
er contains Rotations in prose and verse
relating wholly to the late war and our
boys in blue. Lee IL Shepard, Boston,
New York: Charles 7. Dillingham;. San
Francisco Samuel Carson IL Co.; 30 cents
The Song Friend, published by S. W.
SIraub d Co., Chicago, closed its eighth an
nual volume with the December number
1t is one of the Oldest and best musical pc
riodcals now published, and continues to
increase in merit with increase of age.
Natural Law in the Business World"
by Henry Wood, received our commenda-
ton some time ago. 1t has been issued in
paper covers recently by Lee & Shepard,
Boston, and Charles 7. Dillingham;, Neg
York, and sells at 80 cents.
George NJ Bakers" Yankee Dialect Re-
citation Book " is of 165 pages, in paper
covers, and contains a very large collection
of Yankee dialect stories, poems, etc Lee
& Shepard, Boston; Samuel Carson & Co.,
San Francisco; 30 cents.
George S. Boutwell, has given al excel
lent book entitled, The Lawyer the States
man and the Soldier" 1t consists of ana
lytical and critical sketches of Choate, Web
ster, Lincoln and Grant. Press of d. APP
pleton IL Co, New York.
OF the Reading Club series we have
No. IS, containing fifty selections in prose
and poetry. Edited by George NJ Baker ::
press of Lee e. Shepard, Boston; for sale
by Samuel Carson & Co, San Francisco; 80
cents.
The Debater's Handbook, Including J..
Sheridan Knowles Debate on the Charac-
ter of julius Cesar" is issued by Lee &
Shepard, Boston, and is for sale by Samuel
| Carson IL Co., San Francisco, al 30 cents
OF the -" Battles and Leaders of the Civil
War" series Century Company, New York
we have No s. 1t is elegant in typography